Hey, Paul,
Welcome to LJ's. Like you, I recently joined and am fast becoming addicted. You posted on my site for my coffee table and commented that you hadn't seen that kind of wood in ND. Well, if you go back to the coffee table I posted, I've since put a picture of me harvesting some of the wood in the Badlands (back when I was young, foolish, and not as safety minded with a chainsaw as I am now).